Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 281 Testing

There was a flash of panic in the eyes of the two tied-up men, but they still pretended to be calm.

Manager Ma came out of the mine with his hands behind his back. Seeing that one of the two men looked familiar, he thought hard and said, "I think I've seen you somewhere before?"

The two kidnapped men turned their faces away and pretended not to know Manager Feng.

At this moment, Manager Feng suddenly remembered. He turned to the man and looked at him carefully. "I've seen you at the Yu family. You are the Yu family's guard!"

"I am a villager from Shilipu and I don't know you at all." The guard still refused to admit it.

Manager Ma was not angry. He put his hands behind his back and muttered, "Did I really remember it wrong?"

A quarter of an hour later, the village chief was brought over by secret guards on horseback.

Yun Yi pointed at the two people who were tying up the rice dumplings and said, "Village Chief, can you see if these two people are from Shilipu?"

The two tied-up people didn't expect that they actually found the villagers of Shilipu. The information provided by that adult was wrong. It turned out that there were still people living in Xihe County.

The village chief came forward, took a quick look and said, "No, people in our village cannot afford such nice clothes and shoes."

Yun Yi had murderous intent in his eyes, and waved at the secret guards beside him, "Drag him out and kill him!"

The village chief shrank back in fear and moved aside.

Seeing the secret guards coming forward to drag them away, the two spies panicked and twisted their bodies frantically, "No, you can't kill us. If you kill us, the Yu family will never let you go."

Because of the struggle, beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of the two men. Seeing that Yun Yi was unmoved, they turned their eyes to Manager Ma.

"Manager Ma, please save us!"

Manager Ma laughed, "Just now you said you didn't know me at all?"

"Kill us, Manager Ma, don't forget that your family is still in Nanzhou Prefecture!" they threatened.

"Bah! Go ahead and kill me if you can. I'm so scared!" Manager Ma sneered disdainfully.

Before the New Year, his family was picked up from Nanzhou Prefecture and brought to Longtan by people arranged by Yun Yi, and they even met during the New Year.

They were about to die and had no worries about the news leaking out.

The two were dragged away by the secret guards.

In the distance, other secret guards were leading two horses over.

"Boss, we found two horses. They were well hidden."

Yun Yidao, "Take him away and feed him well."

He walked up to Manager Ma, patted him on the shoulder with his big hand, and said with appreciation, "Well done, I'll make a note of it and give you two extra points in the assessment."

Manager Ma's eyes lit up and he bowed and thanked him again and again.

"Work hard, and I will not treat you unfairly."

After Yun Yi finished speaking, he left with the secret guards.

Manager Ma smiled cheerfully, joy welling up from the bottom of his heart. Since he started working with Longtan and his gang, not only has he been treated well, but his family has also been properly settled.

After Yunye returned, in the next few days, they caught two more groups of people who came to investigate.

Nanzhou Prefecture

In the meeting room of the Yu family, Yu Shida angrily swept the tea set on the table to the ground. He sent two or three teams to investigate, but no one has returned so far.

Yu Xunmei looked at him leisurely and pushed the cup of water in front of her towards him.

"Drink some water and calm down."

"Those sent out are elite troops. How can I not be angry?" Yu Shida drank the tea in the cup and threw it to the ground, saying angrily.

Since he grew up, everything has been arranged by the head of the Yu family. He has had a smooth journey and has never suffered such a big loss.

Thinking of the well-informed Master Yu, Yu Shida asked, "Father hasn't woken up yet?"

Seeing his ferocious face, Yu Xunmei's eyes flashed with sarcasm, and he said calmly, "Perhaps we should analyze who is the person who not only occupied the Xihe Iron Mine, but also has the ability to sink the Japanese ships?"

Yu Shida stood there in a daze, thinking to himself.

After a moment, thinking of a possibility, he suddenly widened his eyes, full of suspicion and shock.

"Do you think it was done by Chi An's gang of bandits?"

"They have been entrenched in Chi'an for many years, acting tyrannically and harming their neighbors in extremely cruel ways. It is very likely." Yu Xunmei said.

Yu Shida clapped his hands. He was surprised at his own cleverness. "There is an iron mine in Xihe. It is inevitable that they will be greedy. I have heard that the Chi'an bandits are close to the Zhong family in Huaizhou City. How about I send someone to Huaizhou City to ask the Zhong family first?"

"I think it's feasible."

After the two men had discussed it, Yu Shida sent someone to Huaizhou City to inquire about the situation.

At the Zhong family in Huaizhou City, the head of the Zhong family listened to the story of the Yu family guards, and looked constipated. He winked at his aide Mr. He who was sitting below him.

Mr. He cleared his throat and said, "I don't agree with what you said. The bandits in Chi'an have been wiped out."

When the Yu family guards heard the news, they were stunned. After a while, they said, "What? You actually wiped out Chi'an's bandit suppression team?"

The head of the Zhong family turned his face away, and Mr. He said, "There is someone else who is suppressing the bandits."

"Who has this extraordinary ability?"

“It’s a little hard to say.”

The Yu family guards found it a little unbelievable. The Zhong family was hesitant in speaking, and they thought that the Zhong family was making excuses and were unwilling to introduce him to the bandit leader, so he insisted on going up the mountain.

The head of the Zhong family had no choice but to let Mr. He accompany the Yu family guards to Chi'an.

Standing in the bandit stronghold where the bandits once lived, the Yu family guards saw that it was full of ragged mountain people.

The mountain people were arranged to live there by Yun Mo and his team after they defeated the bandits.

Looking at the distinguished guests in gorgeous clothes who suddenly appeared, the mountain people were suddenly at a loss, because they were not the benefactors who came to suppress the bandits.

"Do you know who captured and killed the bandits?" the Yu family guards asked sternly.

The mountain people looked at each other, lowered their heads, shrank back and said nothing.

Not knowing who the visitor was, they couldn't easily expose their benefactor.

The benefactor said that he would come to teach them how to grow crops in the spring. After growing crops, they would no longer have to be mountain people and would not have to worry about having no food to eat.

Mr. He walked up to an older man and said, "Old man, do you know who came to suppress the bandits?"

The old man's wrinkled face was full of confusion and he shook his head.

"I don't know. When we heard the shouting and killing here, we were so scared that we hid in the mountains. Half a month later, we came out and found that the bandits were nowhere to be found. The things in the bandit camp were also emptied, and there were bloodstains everywhere. This village can be protected from the sun and rain, so we thought about cleaning it up and moving in."

The Yu family guard was disappointed when he heard this. He looked at Mr. He questioningly. The Zhong family has always had dealings with bandits.

"You, the Zhong family, didn't hear anything about this?"

Mr. He glanced at him sideways, very dissatisfied with his question, "Could it be that the bandits were raised by our Zhong family?"

The Yu family guard wanted to explain himself, but Mr. He snorted coldly, didn't give him a chance, and turned to walk down the mountain.

After Mr. He returned, he had a few words with the head of the Zhong family.

In response to the questions from the Yu family guards, the Zhong family steward who was in charge of reception was always vague.

Having not received any useful information, the Yu family guards did not dare to delay any longer and hurried back.

Before leaving, he met with the head of the Zhong family and advised him to let go of his grudges and prejudices and that cooperating with the Yu family was the best choice.